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This will be slightly #geeky, and probably only of interest to #electronics hobbyists and #guitar players. I happen to sit in the intersection of that particular #Venn diagram.

When I was a teenager, having only been playing guitar for a few years, I owned a guitar #effects pedal that went on to become legendary - the Boss HM-2 "Heavy Metal" #pedal. Its sound is still ubiquitous in metal.

I don't have it any more. I think I traded it for an analog chorus, which was a seriously expensive pedal back then. Although I have other #distortion effects, I've missed it a lot over the years.

Well, lots of hobbyists build their own effects. And the circuit schematics for many effects, particularly the classics, are available online. So like many others, I decided to build my own HM-2.

This image is the schematic for the #HM2. It's not the most complicated pedal, but it's a league above something like an Ibanez Tube Screamer. As far as active devices go, it's got 6 #opamps and 10 #transistors of various types, along with a bunch of diodes for multiple types and stages of clipping, and the usual jumble of capacitors and resistors. Oh, and four potentiometers.

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PixelatedDistortion

Video: youtube.com/watch?v=PMFgclUvEJ

Blogpost: blog.illestpreacha.com/minacod

#minacoding2025 #minacoding15 #distortion #fluctuation #livecoding #pixelation #poetry #newmedia #drift

For MinaCoding2025 Prompt 15: “Drift: Express distortion or fluctuation.”, PixelatedDistortion is coded in #HydraVideoSynth and illustrated pixels that have a fluctuation in their distortion.

#Poem

Innate Fluctuation
Distorted Pixelation
Pixelated while they Elevate
Fluctuates during Rotation
This is how they Navigate

(image) As long as your auditory-to-visual cortical map is not fully formed to match the well-defined visual-to-auditory sensory substitution mapping, it can be hard to distinguish the below images, which in turn limits visual object recognition skills; #distortion is in the brain.